I'm not gonna remember this to do the whole thing, but my contribution to #FreeSoftwareAdvent is xterm.
No frills, no whistles, no transparency, no tabs. No needless ram consumption!
It's just a fracking terminal emulator, and nothing else.
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Eugene
in reply to The Psychotic Network Ferret • • •Oh, 100% agreed — I'm also using xterm for some administrative tasks, like manipulations with jails or bhyve VMs, or simply updating the system. It just works and eats only 20 MB of RAM and 0.03 % of CPU, lol.
BTW, during my presentation about X11, I received some commentary about xterm is the "slow terminal". How do "all cool kids in the school" measures speed of the terminal now?
I tried to type dmesg and all output scrolled to the end almost instantly🤷
#xterm #terminal
The Psychotic Network Ferret
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@evgandr yeah, Microsoft's terminal emulator was so insanely sluggish they released a version with graphics acceleration several years ago. Instead of fixing shite code, they threw more resources at the problem until it went faster. You know, what they always do?
But now, github is filled with terminal emulators with graphics acceleration for some reason. I think people see Microsoft do something and think, "Ooo! Microsoft did a thing, we should copy it to stay _modern!_"
Michael Dexter
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@dexter @evgandr I once read an article by a person who ran dtrace against pshell.exe. The amount of shit that got loaded was absolutely staggering.
Microsoft has honed their ability to write over-engineered bloatware into an art form all their own. They are the software world's equivalent of throwing hot feces and vomit against a canvas and proclaiming it a masterpiece.
R.L. Dane 🍵
in reply to The Psychotic Network Ferret • • •DAYUM!!!
Dude, I've been taking the piss out of MSFT for literally the past 35 years, but that was absolutely over the top.
Amazing work. XD
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